Senator Warren Targets 6 More Crypto Miners for Their Energy Use

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Senator Warren Targets 6 More Crypto Miners for Their Energy Use
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) expanded her inquiry of bitcoin miners’ energy usage and their environmental footprint, sending letters to six more miners on Thursday.Warren wrote to Riot Blockchain, Marathon Digital Holdings, Stronghold Digital Mining, Bitdeer, Bitfury Group and Bit Digital questioning their “extraordinarily high energy usage.”Last December the Massachusetts senator, who has made environmental issues a focus of her office, sent a letter to the bitcoin miner Greenidge, expressing her concerns about its high energy usage.In the new letter, Warren and her colleagues asked each miner to detail electricity consumption, scaling plans, agreements with electricity companies and impact on…